Improvement in cigars



w.AA. WEBSTER.

Cigars.

A10,154,735 I Patented Sept.1,1874.

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WILLIAM A. WEBSTER, or WEsTFoED, MASSACHUSETTS.

1MPRovsMEN1' IN clanes.

Specification formi-ng part of Letters Patent No. 154,735, dated September 1, 1874; application filed July 16, 1874. f

lof Westford, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvementin theManufacture of Cigars; and I d o hereby declare that the following, taken y in connection with the drawings which accompany and form -part of this specification, is a description of my invention sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it.

The invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of cigars, the improvement relating to the construction of cigars, each with a mouth-piece, forming an integral part of the construction of each cigar.

In my construction I make the body of the cigar of the full length to be smoked, and then add to such body a tube or sleeve, which slips over the end of the cigar opposite the end to be lighted, said tube extending around the end of the body of the tobacco, and having extend ing into its outer end an axially-perforated mouth-piece, formed of wood or other suitable material, and the mouth-piece extending into andbeing cemented to the tube, and. the tube and mouth-piece at their adjacent ends being wrapped, united, and cemented together by the outer layer of tobacco.

The invention consists of a cigar thus formed, with the v mouth-piece and bodyintegrally united by the tube and wrapper.

The drawing represents a construction embodying my invention.

Figure 1 shows 'the cigar in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a central section' of it.

a denotes the body of the ci'gar,.lmade up of the filling b, the wrapping-leaf o, the couplingtube d, and the mouth-piece e. The body being first formed, and theltapering mouth-piece e being inserted slightly into one end of a pa'- .per or other suitable tube, the base or larger end of the illing b is thrust into the opposite end of the tube, and eitherup against the per- ,forated mouth-piece, or so' as to leave a chamber, f, between the.; tobacco and the moutli'-r piece. The outer and spiral wrapper or leaf c of tobacco is then wound around the body, tube, and mouth-piece, so as to leave only the tip g of the mouth-piece projecting, and this wrapper being properly cemented the cigar is complete. f `When the cigar is formed with the chamberf, said chamber may be filled with spon ge or other material, to absorb any liquid matter passing through the cigar, or to qualifythe nature and condition of the smoke drawn through. y

By making the cigar with the tube and mouth-piece, the tobacco may be smoked to the extreme end thereof, the mouth and lips being kept from contact with the tobacco,

and the amount of tobacco which is wet by saliva, as in the usual construction, being saved.

I generally use, or propose to use, tips formed of wood, on acccount of lightness and .cheapness; but it will be obvious that other cheap lmaterial may be used, the main object being to substitute for the tobacco a cheap material; and, instead 'of relying Wholly upon the wrapper or tube for the connection of the parts, the mouth-piece may be, .for instance, made with a contracted shank to. thrust into the end of the tobacco. I prefer, however, the specic connection as shown and described. In either case a cheap substitute for good to-` bacco, to be thrown away after the cigar is smoked, is obtained by using a stub of Wood or other inexpensive materialV A. cigar formed with` the permanent mouthpiece e and-"filling b, united by the couplingtube d, and then the mouth-piece, filling, and coupling-tube united bythe spiral wrapper c,- substantially asshown and described.

WM. A. WEBSTER.

Witnesses S. H. FLETCHER, E. A.'Y STEVENS. 

